Big Endorsements for Two Nevada Congressmen

Date: June 12, 2014

News Release From NFIB/Nevada

CARSON CITY, Nev., June 12, 2014—Nevada Congressmen Mark Amodei and Joe Heck received big endorsements today when America’s Voice of Small Business announced its support for their re-elections this November.

“We support the candidates who support small business, and Congressmen Amodei and Heck have stellar, 100-percent voting record for Main Street this Congress,” said Lisa Goeas, vice president for Political and Grassroots at the National Federation of Independent Business. “It bears reminding everyone that small businesses employ the majority of working Americans, generate almost all new jobs, but have distinctly different difficulties in remaining solvent than big businesses.”

The endorsements for the re-election of Amodei (2nd District) and Heck (3rd District) were made by NFIB’s SAFE (Save America’s Free Enterprise) Trust, the association’s political action committee, and are based on positions regarding key small-business issues so far in this Congress, such as health care, taxes, and labor and regulations.

Brief, single-pages of bulleted information on the power of the small-business vote, what a small business is and the distinctions it has from a big business can be found here.

America’s largest small-business association, the National Federation of Independent Business has almost 1,000 dues-paying members in Nevada. “Small businesses significantly impact Nevada’s economy,” reports the Office of Advocacy at the U.S. Small Business Administration. “They represent 95.6 percent of all employers and employ 41.7 percent of the private-sector labor force. Small businesses are crucial to the fiscal condition of the state and numbered 222,457 in 2010. Most of Nevada’s small businesses have fewer than 20 employees.”

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For more than 70 years, the National Federation of Independent Business has been the Voice of Small Business, taking the message from Main Street to the halls of Congress and all 50 state legislatures. NFIB annually surveys its members on state and federal issues vital to their survival as America's economic engine and biggest creator of jobs. NFIB’s educational mission is to remind policymakers that small businesses are not smaller versions of bigger businesses; they have very different challenges and priorities.